GC G Jesse and the padre try to keep things coolD C G Knowing exactly how to make stone into jewelsC G The judge was the kind of man who always talked fastD C And the way things were goingG G/F# His world wouldn't lastEm C D Em C The desperados make a planD Em C To set the town on fireC D Em C And when they try to make a standC D They were ambushed at the wireG The drifter never stays to fightG/F# Em He keeps running till he's way out of sightD But it gets him nowhereG And the drifter never pays the priceG/F# Em He's running through the day and the nightContinues after the adD C G But he's running to nowhereC G The judge said boys don't you know this town is mineD C G Don't going try to change it everything will be just fineC G Those desperadoes don't pay them no mindD C G G/F# Em Everybody knows that they can't read or writeC D Em C The judge put Jesse in the jailD Em C Although there is no crimeD Em C The padre tried to get him outD With a stick of dynamiteG The drifter never stays to fightG/F# Em He keeps running till he's way out of sightD But it gets him nowhereG And the drifter never pays a priceG/F# Em He's running through the day and the nightD But he's running to nowhereC G F G F G Em Bm C Am D G Oh no...C G The drifter knows he can't always go with the tideD C G The time will come when he'll have to choose up sidesC G Which way will he go will it be left or rightD C G The judge says things are either black or whiteEm C D Em C The desperados make a planD Em C To set the town on fireC D Em C And when they try to make a standC D They were ambushed at the wireG The drifter never stays to fightG/F# Em He keeps running till he's way out of sightD But it gets him nowhereG And the drifter never pays the priceG/F# Em He's running through the day and the nightD C G But he's running to nowhere
The Drifter
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